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Oct.] tay in this place. The former never roe above 20° two tenths, nor the latter above 28 inches two lines.

The tation of St. Croix is a very excellent one, on account of the plentiful upply which it affords of all orts of European kitchen-vegetables, cabbages excepted, which, though very mall, are old at an exorbitantly high price. Mot of the orchard-fruits of Europe are likewie to be met with here, and the ame dometic animals as in the ports of France.

Experience had taught us that the heep of this iland do not bear confinement on board o well as ours. The pure air which they have been accutomed to breathe on the mountains where they feed, renders them the more uceptible of injury from the impure air between-decks.

Teneriffe alo affords great abundance of dried fih. They particularly carry on an extenive traffic with the pecies termed bonite.

Thoe parts of the iland upon which the labour of cultivation has been betowed, are very fertile, as is generally the cae in volcanic ilands. The internal heat of the earth which forms their bais, exhales towards the urface of the ground a portion of the rain-water which they have imbibed, which produces a remarkably luxuriant vegetation. On